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Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

Stem Cell Research and Essentials VIII

This paper reviews the important criteria of Essentials VIII professionalism and discusses how they apply to nurses working with p...

Home Visit, Sallie Mae

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

Nursing Theory, Self-Care Deficits

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

Patient Depression and Nursing

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

A Case Study, Bariatric Surgery

This research paper described a case study and whether or not the patient's health can be beneficially addressed by bariatric surg...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

Urinary Catheters - Experiences and Feelings of Patients

in the study had suffered at least one urinary tract infection in the preceding 24 months. Wild (et al, 2010, p309) found an even ...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

The Role of the Nurse Anesthetist

view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...